A mother who is really a mother is never free.
—Honore de Balzac
Topics: Mothers, Family, Mother
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.
—Honore de Balzac
Topics: Hope
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
—Honore de Balzac
Topics: Blessings, Silver Linings
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
—Honore de Balzac
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties, Necessity
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
—Honore de Balzac
Topics: Forgiveness, Mothers Day, Mothers, Motherhood
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
—Honore de Balzac
There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
—Honore de Balzac
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals—that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
—Honore de Balzac
Topics: Ideals
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
—Honore de Balzac
Topics: Difficulty, Marriage
After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
—Honore de Balzac
Topics: Worry
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